Civ. V / Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS)

[ledbettj]

Hey folks,

I noticed when trying to download mods via the in-game interface in Civilization V, hovering over the download button says

Cannot download because Microsoft BITS has not been started

From what I can tell wine has some sort of BITS implementation (?), so this should work.

I tried running "net start bits" from the wine console as well prior to starting the game, but it didn't seem to help.

Is there a debug trace I can gather to help troubleshoot the issue?

This is with wine 1.3.4. [/quote]

[vitamin]

I tried running "net start bits" from the wine console as well prior to starting the game, but it didn't seem to help.

That won't work. You need to start it in a separate console while you running the game. Wine kills all background programs when last GUI/CLI program exits.

[ledbettj]

That won't work. You need to start it in a separate console while you running the game. Wine kills all background programs when last GUI/CLI program exits.

right. Here's the process I used:

1. start Steam client
2. run 'wine net start bits', which says the service is started successfully
3. launch Civ 5 from Steam
4. Unable to download mods because 'Microsoft BITS has not been started'

I tried again, using the following steps:

1. start Steam client
2. launch Civ 5
3. run 'wine net start bits' (successfully)
4. Unable to download mods because 'Microsoft BITS has not been started'

It seems like the game is not noticing that BITS is running, or BITS is not actually starting.[/quote]

[vitamin]

It seems like the game is not noticing that BITS is running, or BITS is not actually starting.

Or it's looking for a newer version of it which Wine doesn't support.